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The Associated Press reports: “The Justice Department has reached an agreement with six major Silicon Valley companies to settle allegations that they colluded to stifle competition for employees by restricting the way they could poach workers from each other. The settlement, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia late Friday, names Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Intuit Inc. and Walt Disney Corp.’s Pixar Animation Studios.” Read more at seattlepi … …

The window keeps narrowing for Microsoft and its partners to get a mainstream Windows tablet out in the wild. Today, virtualization firm Parallels released an app that brings Windows and Windows applications to the Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. …

Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit released the final bits of Office for Mac 2011 to manufacturers on Friday. But while they celebrated their accomplishment, the also lamented the features they just weren’t able to squeeze into the release. …

Up a few points, down a few points — essentially flat. That’s how the worldwide browser market-share numbers were for August. Only Google’s Chrome moved in any significant way, its share rising 5 percent month to month. …

Apple is holding one of its famous media briefings at 10 a.m. today in Cupertino, Calif. There’s no official word on what the company will announce, but most people are guessing it will have something to do with iTunes. …

Having reached a $200 million settlement with Microsoft after two patent-infringement lawsuits, VirnetX has sued Apple, Cisco Systems, NEC Corp. and NEC of America with similar allegations. The Scotts Valley, Calif.-based firm of 12 employees claims those companies use virtual private network (VPN) technology that violates VirnetX’s patents. More information is available here from Bloomberg. …